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Alice  Miller Quotes: "The more we idealize the past and refuse to acknowledge our childhood sufferings, the more we pass them on unconsciously to the next generation."

The more we idealize the past and refuse to acknowledge our childhood sufferings, the more we pass them on unconsciously to the next generation.



Alice  Miller Quotes: "What is addiction, really? It is a sign, a signal, a symptom of distress. It is a language that tells us about a plight that must be understood."

What is addiction, really? It is a sign, a signal, a symptom of distress. It is a language that tells us about a plight that must be understood.




Alice  Miller Quotes: "Wherever I look, I see signs of the commandment to honor one's parents and nowhere of a commandment that calls for the respect of a child."

Wherever I look, I see signs of the commandment to honor one's parents and nowhere of a commandment that calls for the respect of a child.



Alice  Miller Quotes: "For the human soul is virtually indestructible, and its ability to rise from the ashes remains as long as the body draws breath."

For the human soul is virtually indestructible, and its ability to rise from the ashes remains as long as the body draws breath.




Alice  Miller Quotes: "The reason why parents mistreat their children has less to do with character and temperament than with the fact that they were mistreated themselves and were not permitted to defend themselves."

The reason why parents mistreat their children has less to do with character and temperament than with the fact that they were mistreated themselves and were not permitted to defend themselves.



Alice  Miller Quotes: "Disrespect is the weapon of the weak"

Disrespect is the weapon of the weak



Alice  Miller Quotes: "All children are born to grow, to develop, to live, to love, and to articulate their needs and feelings for their self-protection"

All children are born to grow, to develop, to live, to love, and to articulate their needs and feelings for their self-protection




Alice  Miller Quotes: "Genuine feelings cannot be produced, nor can they be eradicated. We can only repress them, delude ourselves, and deceive our bodies. The body sticks to the facts."

Genuine feelings cannot be produced, nor can they be eradicated. We can only repress them, delude ourselves, and deceive our bodies. The body sticks to the facts.



Alice  Miller Quotes: "We don't yet know, above all, what the world might be like if children were to grow up without being subjected to humiliation, if parents would respect them and take them seriously as people."

We don't yet know, above all, what the world might be like if children were to grow up without being subjected to humiliation, if parents would respect them and take them seriously as people.



Alice  Miller Quotes: "An unacknowledged trauma is like a wound that never heals over and may start to bleed again at any time."

An unacknowledged trauma is like a wound that never heals over and may start to bleed again at any time.



Alice  Miller Quotes: "That probably greatest of narcissistic wounds -- not to have been loved just as one truly was -- cannot heal without the work of mourning."

That probably greatest of narcissistic wounds -- not to have been loved just as one truly was -- cannot heal without the work of mourning.



Alice  Miller Quotes: "Society chooses to disregard the mistreatment of children, judging it to be altogether normal because it is so commonplace."

Society chooses to disregard the mistreatment of children, judging it to be altogether normal because it is so commonplace.




Alice  Miller Quotes: "The abused children are alone with their suffering, not only within the family, but also within themselves. They cannot crate a place in their own soul where they could cry their beart out."

The abused children are alone with their suffering, not only within the family, but also within themselves. They cannot crate a place in their own soul where they could cry their beart out.



Alice  Miller Quotes: "Contempt is the weapon of the weak and a defense against one's own despised and unwanted feelings."

Contempt is the weapon of the weak and a defense against one's own despised and unwanted feelings.



Alice  Miller Quotes: "Genuine forgiveness does not deny anger but faces it head-on."

Genuine forgiveness does not deny anger but faces it head-on.



Alice  Miller Quotes: "Courage can be just as infectious as fear."

Courage can be just as infectious as fear.



Alice  Miller Quotes: "The true opposite of depression is not gaiety or absence of pain, but vitality: the freedom to experience spontaneous feelings."

The true opposite of depression is not gaiety or absence of pain, but vitality: the freedom to experience spontaneous feelings.



Alice  Miller Quotes: "The commandment to refrain from placing blame on our parents, deeply imprinted in us by our upbringing, skillfully performs the function of hiding essential truths from us."

The commandment to refrain from placing blame on our parents, deeply imprinted in us by our upbringing, skillfully performs the function of hiding essential truths from us.



Alice  Miller Quotes: "If it's very painful for you to criticize your friends - you're safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that's the time to hold your tongue."

If it's very painful for you to criticize your friends - you're safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that's the time to hold your tongue.



Alice  Miller Quotes: "We can never do the right thing as long as we are out to please someone else."

We can never do the right thing as long as we are out to please someone else.



Alice  Miller Quotes: "Clinging uncritically to traditional ideas and beliefs often serves to obscure or deny real facts of our life history."

Clinging uncritically to traditional ideas and beliefs often serves to obscure or deny real facts of our life history.



Alice  Miller Quotes: "If a mother respects both herself and her child from his very first day onward, she will never need to teach him respect for others."

If a mother respects both herself and her child from his very first day onward, she will never need to teach him respect for others.



Alice  Miller Quotes: "Depression leads him close to his wounds, but only the mourning for what he has missed, missed at the crucial time, can lead to real healing."

Depression leads him close to his wounds, but only the mourning for what he has missed, missed at the crucial time, can lead to real healing.



Alice  Miller Quotes: "We produce destructive people by the way we are treating them in childhood."

We produce destructive people by the way we are treating them in childhood.



Alice  Miller Quotes: "One of the best ways of keeping your temper in an argument, as most of us know only too well, is not to listen to anything the other person has to say."

One of the best ways of keeping your temper in an argument, as most of us know only too well, is not to listen to anything the other person has to say.



Alice  Miller Quotes: "Empathy grows as we learn."

Empathy grows as we learn.



Alice  Miller Quotes: "The father receives his power from God (and from his own father). The teacher finds the soil already prepared for obedience, and the political leader has only to harvest what has been sown."

The father receives his power from God (and from his own father). The teacher finds the soil already prepared for obedience, and the political leader has only to harvest what has been sown.



Alice  Miller Quotes: "One can only remember what has been consciously experienced."

One can only remember what has been consciously experienced.



Alice  Miller Quotes: "It is possible to resolve childhood repression safely and without confusion - something that has always been disputed by the most respected schools of thought."

It is possible to resolve childhood repression safely and without confusion - something that has always been disputed by the most respected schools of thought.



Alice  Miller Quotes: "Genuine feelings are never the product of conscious effort. They are quite simply there, and they are there for a very good reason, even if that reason is not always apparent."

Genuine feelings are never the product of conscious effort. They are quite simply there, and they are there for a very good reason, even if that reason is not always apparent.



Alice  Miller Quotes: "Emotional access to the truth is the indispensable precondition of healing."

Emotional access to the truth is the indispensable precondition of healing.



Alice  Miller Quotes: "The child has a primary need to be regarded and respected as the person he really is at any given time, and as the center - the central actor - in his own activity."

The child has a primary need to be regarded and respected as the person he really is at any given time, and as the center - the central actor - in his own activity.



Alice  Miller Quotes: "Problems cannot be solved with words, but only through experience."

Problems cannot be solved with words, but only through experience.



Alice  Miller Quotes: "Parents are indeed capable of routinely torturing their children without anyone interceding."

Parents are indeed capable of routinely torturing their children without anyone interceding.



Alice  Miller Quotes: "Don't ever dare to take your college as a matter of course - because, like democracy and freedom, many people you'll never know have broken their hearts to get it for you."

Don't ever dare to take your college as a matter of course - because, like democracy and freedom, many people you'll never know have broken their hearts to get it for you.



Alice  Miller Quotes: "Today I should not be identified with any kind of regressive therapy."

Today I should not be identified with any kind of regressive therapy.



Alice  Miller Quotes: "There are people who have benefited from therapy without being confronted with the past at all."

There are people who have benefited from therapy without being confronted with the past at all.



Alice  Miller Quotes: "You gotta keep that in check - you got to."

You gotta keep that in check - you got to.



Alice  Miller Quotes: "Not to take one's own suffering seriously, to make light of it or even to laugh at it, is considered good manners in our culture."

Not to take one's own suffering seriously, to make light of it or even to laugh at it, is considered good manners in our culture.



Alice  Miller Quotes: "A human being born into a cold, indifferent world will regard his situation as the only possible one."

A human being born into a cold, indifferent world will regard his situation as the only possible one.



Alice  Miller Quotes: "Cruelty is the opposite of love, and its traumatic effect, far from being reduced, is actually reinforced if it is presented as a sign of love."

Cruelty is the opposite of love, and its traumatic effect, far from being reduced, is actually reinforced if it is presented as a sign of love.



Alice  Miller Quotes: "Experience has taught us that we have only one enduring weapon in our struggle against mental illness: the emotional discovery of our truth about the unique history of our childhood."

Experience has taught us that we have only one enduring weapon in our struggle against mental illness: the emotional discovery of our truth about the unique history of our childhood.



Alice  Miller Quotes: "All children are born to grow, to develop, to live, to love, and to articulate their needs and feelings for their self-protection."

All children are born to grow, to develop, to live, to love, and to articulate their needs and feelings for their self-protection.



Alice  Miller Quotes: "The more we idealized the past, however, and refuse to acknowledge or childhood sufferings, the more we pass them on unconsciously to the next generation."

The more we idealized the past, however, and refuse to acknowledge or childhood sufferings, the more we pass them on unconsciously to the next generation.



Alice  Miller Quotes: "True autonomy is preceded by the experience of being dependent. True liberation can be found only beyond the deep ambivalence of infantile dependence."

True autonomy is preceded by the experience of being dependent. True liberation can be found only beyond the deep ambivalence of infantile dependence.